This is not about the photos. It's about how they came to be. My battery was dead. The only battery I had at the moment.
It was the on the morning of the final day of my recent vacation. I woke up earlier and decided to go out but the noises I was making in preparation were not well-liked in the small room...that was also for sleeping, etc.
So I only grabbed my mirrorless camera in a hurry, not taking any bag, no nothing. Its battery was about 30 % or so charged. And falling fast in the cold morning air out there. I was tramping down and up some streets and I went to a quarter of the small town where I hadn't gone before. The sun was rising behind the slope of the mountain and lighting in a beautiful way the buildings on the other slope, the one across.
How I wished that I had taken a tripod, my DSLR with the long-range lens, and been able to photograph the beautiful transition into morning accordingly. I saw pretty cool sights, indeed. But they were not to be photographed by me. Not on that day. I could just accept it and walk on, watching the hills, the belfry tower of the church, and the rooftops turn orange-red...
I kept on walking.
A couple of folks were loading bales of hay on an open-trailer truck.
Someone had made a funny gas-wood energy combo in order to boil stuff in a cauldron.
This be a photo my battery sent from "the other side".
Camera Settings:
Aperture F 8; Shutter Speed 1/160 of a second; Light Sensitivity ISO 1600; Focal Length 50 mm.
(A tight crop from a much wider image. About 10 % of the field of vision even at 50 mm focal length.)
Camera Model and Lens:
Sony Alpha 6000 mirrorless with a 16-50 mm kit lens on it.
By that time, I had no bttery left. The camera would turn on just to display the Exchausted Battery or Battery Exhausted message and turn off again. Immediately, with no time for me to snap a shot.
Until I tried this trick:
Taking the battery out and giving it some warmth by applying friction on it s surface, rubbing it between my palms.
Have you tried this?
Each time I did that, it received enough energy to make a single shot possible before turning the camera would turn off again. No time to change settings, not much time to focus or anything...Just confirm auto focus, but zoom in to the maximum in this case, then snap, and Good Night again.
I had nine shots this way.
All crappy, true.
And since you stayed with me to the end of this story, here's another one:
My favorite because it did capture a humble play of morning light shining upon a fraction of the structure. The simple joys of the life of a photographer with a dead battery...
Camera Settings:
Aperture F 8; Shutter Speed 1/640 of a second; Light Sensitivity ISO 1600; Focal Length 16 mm.
(A tight crop from a much wider image. About 10 % of the field of vision even at 50 mm focal length.)
Camera Model and Lens:
Sony Alpha 6000 mirrorless with a 16-50 mm kit lens on it.
Peace and Sunlight!
Yours,
Manol